A documentary on how Stuttgart Opera’s Parsifal was produced in 2009/10.
Conducted by Harry Bicket; starring Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser and Shenyang. Transmitted live on December 3, 2011.
Performance of Prokofiev’s Igrok on October 7, 2017 at the Vienna State Opera.
From San Francisco Opera, filmed live in HD at the War Memorial Opera House in 2009.
Barrie Kosky and Vladimir Jurowski collaborate on this splendid production of Schoenberg’s unfinished masterpiece.
Nina Stemme and Jonas Kaufmann star in this performance conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, as telecast October 5, 2013.
John Corigliano and William M. Hoffmann‘s gay fantasia on royalist themes, as telecast on January 10, 1992.
Lise Davidsen, Stephen Gould and Erin Morley star in this performance from the Vienna State Opera.
From the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, conducted by Antonio Pappano.
Conducted by Valery Gergiev; starring Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala in Iolanta, and Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko in Bluebeard’s Castle. Transmitted live on February 14, 2015.
Sondra Radvanovksy heads the cast in this performance from the Vienna State Opera on March 28, 2015.
Harry Bicket leads Lucy Crowe, Barbara Frittoli, Elina Garanca, Kate Lindsey and Giuseppe Filianoti in this Met HD telecast from December 1, 2012.
Mean, moody magnificent Renée Fleming puts the “tease” in “courtesan.”
A one-time stream of the Princeton Festival’s 2018 production.
Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; starring Sonya Yoncheva, Aleksandrs Antonenko, and Zeljko Lucic. Transmitted live on October 17, 2015.
Thomas Adès conducts his own massively ironic pastiche of an opera, as telecast in the Met’s Live in HD series on November 18, 2017.
The legendary Calixto Bieito production of Wagner’s music drama, streamed from Staatsoper Stuttgart.
Starring Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti and Cornell MacNeil. Transmitted live on December 19, 1978.
Featuring Anna Larsson, Nina Stemme, Gun-Brit Barkmin, Norbert Ernst and Falk Struckmann, conducted by Mikko Franck.
Stephanie Blythe, Danielle de Niese and Heidi Grant Murphy star, conducted by James Levine. From January 24, 2009.
Marlis Petersen in the title role of Berg’s masterpiece in William Kentridge’s enthralling production.
The Metropolitan Opera has paused its streaming opera telecasts today to observe Blackout Tuesday.
Michael Fabiano, Quinn Kelsey and Olga Peretyatko star in this production from the Paris Opéra Bastille.
Conducted by Patrick Summers; starring Anna Netrebko, Eric Cutler, Franco Vassallo and John Relyea. Transmitted live on January 6, 2007.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
